President Obama decided to appear on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, the better to fire up his youthful but enervated base. Almost immediately, Obama displayed a well-known characteristic of his—or rather, two—complaining and historical ignorance: “We’ve gone through the two toughest … Continue reading →
I’m really getting sick of this stuff. As I wrote in my post on O’Donnell approximately an hour ago: I have noticed a trend in the MSM that goes like this: the press decides that certain candidates on the right … Continue reading →
Did you know that these are “the toughest times any president has ever faced”? Rahm Emanuel knows. And he’s saying goodbye to all that. I don’t know what’s more frightening: that this is what the president’s Chief of Staff for … Continue reading →
Note the following, from a 2007 (that is: pre-Obama, pre-financial meltdown) review of The Forgotten Man, the Amity Shlaes book on the Great Depression: As Shlaes emphasizes, the New Dealers tended to see business as an institution to be squeezed … Continue reading →
Commenter David Foster has written a two-part book review of historian and author Sebastian Haffner’s Defying Hitler (part I is here, part II here). I would say “read the whole thing.” But I’ll amend that a bit and say instead, … Continue reading →
[NOTE: The following is a reposting of a piece that appeared here on a previous Hiroshima anniversary. If you follow the links in the second paragraph, you’ll find three other pieces I’ve written about the decision to drop the bomb … Continue reading →
Perhaps you’ve already seen the video of Helen Thomas giving the Jews of Israel some decidedly unfriendly advice about just where they should go: And you’ve probably seen the calls for Hearst to fire Helen Thomas and encourage her none-too-early … Continue reading →
Note the following comment from someone called “SWJ,” written May 21 at 04:37 PM and appearing on this comment thread: We have to have a Carter-like fool get elected now and then to remind America why the left can’t be … Continue reading →
Timothy Garton Ash says that Europe needs a new Churchill to add “dynamism” to the moribund EU: The European Union is still the world’s largest economy. It has enormous resources of hard and soft power, at present much bigger than … Continue reading →
Remember Henry Gates, Obama’s buddy who had a run-in a while back with a Cambridge cop? A few weeks ago he published a surprisingly balanced and thoughtful opinion piece in the NY Times that admitted the role of Africans in … Continue reading →
It is impossible not to suspect that foul play was involved in the plane crash death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski in Russia: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died on Saturday … Continue reading →
By now we all have probably noticed the strange phenomenon of people who are highly accomplished in their own fields but who fail to exercise even a modicum of common sense when opining outside them. I’ve been reading Thomas Sowell’s … Continue reading →